“Super 16” Walk for Education Set for Oct. 13

Thousands of students, parents, staff and community members will walk from McCorkle Place on the UNC campus to Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill Road, the school district’s central office. Organized by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation, the walk is in its 16th year of supporting the schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro district...

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Board to Meet in Closed Session on Sept. 26

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education will meet in closed session regarding personnel matters on Wednesday, September 26, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. at Lincoln Center. The Board will go into closed session pursuant to 143-318.11(a)(1) to consider confidential personnel information protected by N.C.G.S. 115C-321. Back to CHCCS webs...

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District Holds College & Career Night

The 2012 Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools College Fair was held at the UNC - Dean Smith Center on September 19.  This year, 104 colleges and universities were represented and 1,200 students and parents walked the concourse of the Smith Center. "The goal of the fair is to bring together representatives of educational...

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District Earns Graduation Achievement Awards

State Superintendent June Atkinson was joined by State Board of Education Chairman Bill Harrison in recognizing districts with the highest four-year cohort graduation rates in North Carolina in 2011-12.  This was the fifth year that Atkinson has held the special awards ceremony to highlight the importance of the high school graduation...

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Fifty-one students named National Merit Semifinalists

The names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Program were announced by officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).  These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $34 million, that will be offered next spring.  To be considered for a Merit...

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Hartness Selected as Learning and Intervention Services Director

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has named Dr. Amanda Hartness as its director of Learning and Intervention Services (LIS).  She is currently the principal at McDougle Elementary.As part of the Instructional Services Division (ISD), this position includes the district’s Responsiveness to Instruction (RtI) initiative whose former coordinator,...

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Carnahan Named Principal for Elementary #11

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has selected Cheryl Carnahan as the principal for Elementary #11.  She is currently the principal at Estes Hills Elementary.Carnahan has been the principal at Estes Hills Elementary since 2007.  She had served as the school’s assistant principal for a year before that.Before joining CHCCS, Carnahan...

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District Hosts Focus Groups for Upcoming Long-Range Plan

CHCCS is planning several focus groups to provide parents and community members an opportunity to provide feedback regarding the “Shared Beliefs” generated by the 250 participants at the Greenhouse Project last spring. The belief statements will serve as the foundation of the district's new long-range plan.  Input from staff...

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